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Laurie turned slowly over in bed, drew a long breath, expelled it, and, releasing his arht by his bed, glanced at his watch, switched off the light, and sank down again into the sheets He need not get up just yet

Then he remembered

When an event of an entirely new order comes into experience, it takes a little tie piece of furniture is brought into a room; all the rest of the furniture takes upon itself a different value A picture that did very well up to then over the fire-place must perhaps be moved Values, relations, and balance all require readjustht Laurie had indeed been convinced, in one sense, of spiritualistic phenonificance when they affected everything else The new sideboard, so to speak, had been brought into the rooainst the wall in a vacant space to be looked at; the owner of the roo the whole But last night soinning to perceive the need of a co

As he lay there, quiet indeed, but startlingly alert, he first reviewed the single fact

About an hour or so had passed away before anything particular happened They had sat there, those four, in complete silence, their hands upon the table, occasionally shifting a little, hearing the sound of one another's breathing or the faint rustle of one of the ladies' dresses, in sufficient light frole heavily shaded electric burner to recognize faces, and even, after the first few e print

For the most part Laurie had kept his eyes upon the medium in the cabinet There the man had leaned back, plainly visible for the most part, with even the paleness of his face and the dark blot of his beard clearly discernible in the twilight Now and then the boy's eyes had wandered to the other faces, to the young clergyman's opposite downcast and motionless, with a sort of apprehensive look and a deterive way--to the three-quarter profiles of the toleam of the pince-nez below Lady Laura's frizzed hair

So he had sat, the thoughts at first racing through his brain, then, as tiever more passive, until at last he had been coainst the drowsiness that had begun to envelop hiether three or four tiun to wonder whether he should be able to resistof the table had awakened him, alert and conscious in a moment, and he had sat with every faculty violently attentive to what should follow